part 1] PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. lxxxV 



Rock- specimens, fossils, microscope-slides, and lantern-slides 

 were exhibited in illustration of their paper by Prof. A. H. Cox 

 and Mr. A. K. Wells. 



March 24th, 1920. 



Mr. E. D. Oldham, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Brinley Clifford George, B.Sc, Lecturer in Geology & Mineralogy 

 at the Swansea Technical College, 11 Nicholl Street, Swansea ; 

 and Frank William White, The Anchorage, Dover Street, Hull, 

 were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President then said : — 



' With sorrow I have to announce to the Society the loss of an old, and one 

 of its most distinguished, Fellows — Charles Lapwoeth. Overcoming in 

 his early days difficulties which would have daunted any but one of the most 

 elect of the earth, he has added to our knowledge a wealth of observation and 

 a number of those vitalizing concepts on which the life and progress of 

 Science depend, and has added lustre to our Science and Society, not in this 

 country alone, but in every land where Geology is cultivated. Your Council 

 has already put on record its appreciation of the services which our late 

 Fellow has rendered and sympathy with his family in their bereavement ; 

 but, considering that the Society at large would desire an opportunity of 

 associating itself with these sentiments, I will ask your concurrence.' 



The communication was received by the Fellows present, 

 standing, and unanimously approved. 



The President read a communication from the Foreign Secre- 

 tary, Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., K.C.B., F.R.S., conveying 

 information as to the present location and conditions of life of 

 Russian geologists, some well known in this country. 



The President announced that the Council had awarded the 

 Proceeds of the Daniel- Pidgeon Fund available in the present year 

 to Miss Marjorte Elizabeth Jane Chandler, who proposes to 

 investigate the Ohgocene Flora of the Hordle Cliffs (Hampshire) ; 

 and to Laurence Dudley Stamp, B.Sc, Assoc.K.C.L., F.G.S., 

 who proposes to make a comparative study of the Downtonian and 

 Gedinnian in North- Western Europe. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'On Two Preglacial Floras from Castle Eden (Countv 

 Durham).' By Mrs! Eleanor M. Reid, B.Sc, F.L.S .F.G.S. 



